![]() ![]() This RFC assessment is first used for a function-by-function comparison with the functionalĭemands of an individual's PRW as he or she actually performed it and then, if necessary,Īs the work is generally performed in the national economy. Of the relevant evidence of an individual's ability to perform work-related activities. Initially, the RFC assessment is a function-by-function assessment based upon all (See DI 24510.006 Assessing Residual Functional Capacity in Initial Claims (SSR 96-8p).) The Act requires that an individual's inability to work must result from the individual's It does not consider limitations or restrictions due to age or body habitus, since ![]() The RFC assessment considers only those limitationsĪnd restrictions that are caused by an individual's physical or mental impairments. It is not the least an individual can do, but the most, based on all of RFC is the individual's maximum remaining ability to perform sustained work on a regularĪnd continuing basis i.e., 8 hours a day, for 5 days a week, or an equivalent work submitted by an individual's treating source(s) or other acceptable medical source. “medical source statements” - i.e., opinions about what the individual can still do despite a severe impairment(s) In the case record, including information about the individual's symptoms and any RFC is assessed by adjudicatorsĪt each level of the administrative review process based on all of the relevant evidence To perform work-related physical and mental activities. Physical or mental limitations or restrictions that may affect his or her capacity It is an administrative assessment of the extent to which an individual's medicallyĭeterminable impairment(s), including any related symptoms, such as pain, may cause Restrictions caused by his or her medically determinable physical or mental impairments. ![]() RFC is what an individual can still do despite his or her functional limitations and Individual's RFC, age, education, and work experience. It must be determined whether the individual can do any other work, considering the Of any listing, prevents the individual from performing past relevant work (PRW), Is not engaging in substantial gainful activity and has a “severe” medically determinable impairment(s) which, though not meeting or equaling the criteria Under the sequential evaluation process, once it has been determined that an individual ![]()
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